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["Graham Foster" <gandalfmeister@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was quick! – Thanks

echo select * from tables order bv 1 desc  | sqlformatter.exe 

works in the command shell, and I get reformatted text back out onto the console of 

 

select *

from tables

order by 1 desc

 

I was hoping to keep this simple without having to write parsers for wiki text!

Thx

Graham

 

From: Jaap Karssenberg [mailto:jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 30 April 2015 12:45
To: Graham Foster
Cc: Zim
Subject: Re: [Zim-wiki] Getting external tools to work?

 

Hi Graham,

The custom tool really only takes a command, not a shell expression. So in your example "echo %t  | sqlformatter.exe" the "|" doesn't do what you think it does - instead it is just passed on as a literal to the "echo" command.

What you should do is put the commands in a ".bat" file, then use that ".bat" file as a custom command.

I would advice to go the "%f" route and use a custom script to extract the sql and run it through the formatter. The "%t" might not work at all in combination with the code blocks plugin - at least, I have not tested that.

Hope this helps,

Jaap

 

 

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Graham Foster <gandalfmeister@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gandalfmeister@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:

Hi

I do a lot of SQL and use Zim for keeping notes on client issues / the SQL used to investigate issues.

I have the source code plugin, which does nice highlighting, but I would like to do reformatting too.

I have a command line reformatter, but it expects SQL text in – not wiki format text. I tried passing selected text, but that doesn’t work.

I can make it work like a filter for simple SQL, but although I use %t as parameter – it still doesn’t work.

 

echo %t  | sqlformatter.exe  - fails command notfound??

sqlformatter.exe %f  - fails – chokes on the wiki text

 

Any suggestions as to how to get this to work please?

Graham


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